Aiming to tell a truer story

I am a writer who grew up on Nancy Drew and Agatha Christie. I have yet to solve a mystery (unless you count finding my wedding ring under the shoe rack after it had gone missing for 14 days), but I have maintained day jobs in journalism since graduating straight into the Great Recession, which feels like grace.

These days, I’d describe myself as a mom of three and wife of one, settled for the last fifteen years near Washington, D.C. — far from our roots in Kansas and Oklahoma — largely out of love for our local church in Northern Virginia. In 2025, I joined the staff of Common Good magazine as a senior editor, combining my background as a journalist with my work as an author of Christian nonfiction books.

After losing my mom to the cancer she wrestled with for 20 years, I wrote We Shall All Be Changed: How Facing Death with Loved Ones Transforms Us (Moody, 2024), which The Gospel Coalition recognized as the best book by a first-time author that year. I recently finished the manuscript for my second book, which is due to be released by B&H in March of 2027. The working title is The Life I Live in the Body: Loving, Longing, and Living in the Body God Gave You.

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